February 2010
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For the last few months I’ve been volunteering at the National Language Museum. It’s pretty slum, actually. Just one story of an office building in College Park with 3 big rooms and an office area. But it’s a really great place with a lot of kind, knowledgeable people. Still, we don’t get a lot of visitors, so I’m here to do a plug:
A new exhibit is coming in March...
Derek Walcott is God
“[Foreign] writers describe the ambitions of our unfinished cities, their unrealized, homiletic conclusion, but the Caribbean city may conclude just at that point where it is satisfied with its own scale, just as Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped. Its proportions are not to be measured by the traveller or the exile, but by its own citizenry and architecture. To be told...
Field Trip!
We went to the African Art Museum today to see the Yinka Shonibare exhibit. It was incredible. He makes a really compelling image of colonialism and just some beautiful stuff to look at. He takes standard aristocratic garb from the 18th and 19th centuries and constructs the clothing in indigenous African prints and fabrics.
(There were some humping mannequins in a menage a trois.)
There was...
Cast The Bantling On the Rocks: The Legend of La... →
La Llorona was a beautiful woman who killed her children to be with the man that she loved and was subsequently rejected by him. He might have been the children’s father, and left their mother for another woman, or he might have been a man she loved, but who was uninterested in a…
Hey, not to reblog you too much Isak, but I made a movie of this legend this summer in Mexico. Except the...
I spent Valentine’s Day putting my mom’s paper contacts onto her computer for 5 dollars an hour.
I really wanna go to Montreal.
